What is the Hardest Location in Fallout: New Vegas?

I remember the first time I cleared out Deadwind Cavern was with an explosives character fairly late in the game. Turns out Deathclaws aren't actually that big of a threat if they're forced to approach you through a single narrow corridor and you've got a grenade machine gun

Man, a riot shotgun with shotgun surgeon and stay back always do the trick for me. A little bit of Psycho, Slasher, Med-X and Buffout to spice things up a bit and voilà Deadwind Cavern goes from 'hardest location' to being a literal walk in the park

I remember when I was doing the Thorn quest and I knew that going to Quarry Junction was suicide at the level I was at and Lucy mentioned I might have better luck at Deathwind cavern Little did I know…

I would say the Courier Miles by a short margin, sure Deadwind Cavern is a gauntlet from end to finish but the small tunnels will also impede the larger horde to gang on you completely. On the other hand, the Mile not only allow for the Clawz to flank you but you will also have to adapt your tactics to the various marked men, between having two or three Deathclaws on your ass, you will also be hosed down by marked man firepower or run into one of their own group while you try to find a safe spot.

Ive always found the legendary bloatfly cave the hardest for obvious reasons, ive beaten deadwind cavern so many times that ive got good at cheesing it. I love beating lonesone road early so each time ive never been close to lvl 40 when doing it. Deathclaw ai is just soo easy to break that i feel like even in the couriers mile there will be loads of places you can hop up and become immune to them.

Courier's mile is the hardest enemy location in the game. I think the reason most people don't think of it as being that difficult is that you don't normally visit the location until you are max level and have the best weapons. Even so, you are likely to have a close call or two with the irradiated deathclaws, which heal over time from the radiation.

Probably worth mentioning that the irradiated deathclaws also regenerate health because the couriers mile is irradiated

lol I remember doing deathwind cavern (now this was normal or medium or whatever it's called difficulty) and somehow didn't have much trouble thanks to companions, but the legendary deathclaw was a damn pushover! I mean that literally because Rex knocked it over leading the guy into a swift and largely defenseless death

1k hours and you don't know that you can bind stimpacks to number keys?

Man forgot to mention the insane Radiation in Couriers Mile makes the marked men heal at stupid rates

Annabelle can deal with each location except maybe the cavern. Even without a build tailored for explosives. You just have to be careful about splash damage. Bonus effect is you cripple their legs a lot of the time, so they often don't rush you as quickly.

In Dead wind Cavern, once you go in, you go left and there's a ledge you can jump up on and snipe from there. The Deathclaws can't reach you. You can lure a lot of them there, too.

I love the couriers mile man. The name, the reward and the gameplay is so intense

I personally think that the "Mysterious Cave" is the most difficult. The Legendary Bloatfly is the hardest single enemy in the game by a large margin, and the fact that it shoots at you rather than just rushing at you makes it a practical impossibility for a melee/unarmed build. Deathclaws, on the other hand, flop harmlessly and hilariously to the ground when using a move such as the Ranger Takedown. I have done both of the locations you have mentioned with both an unarmed build, and using only a Silenced .22.

I once got saved locked in deathclaw promitory (ie. Saved almost right before i got killed and ended up in a death loop) and i don't consider fallout a puzzle game but trying to think of how to get out of that situation really had me racking my brain. I got lucky though i managed to stagger the deathclaw which kept mauling me with 44. And i just booked it across the river

I remember when I saw the legendary deathclaw in the cave, I literally equipped an assault carbine with armor-piercing rounds with chems and sneak attacks in vats, and slightly had enough ammo to kill it when it charged at me.

I guess there is also the baby strat you could do for the courier's mile. when the enemies get too close, you leave the area, wait a bit, then go back in. That reloads your stealth, allowing for a sneak critical. Then also the flare gun helps

I remember around the time the game came out, my cousin swore to me that there was a special Enclave armor set that spoke to you and had stealth boy Effect at the Deathclaw Promonory. We searched for hours before finally asking my dad to look it up (this was long before I ever had a laptop or smart phone) and we disappointedly discovered it did not exist. I know there is the remnants armor, but I always just got that through the enclave quest, and instead wanted the rumored stealth boy variant, which was clearly a misremembered amalgamation of a few different armor sets

Nothing tops the Sierra Madre Vault with its shielded speakers and invincible security holograms!

The Deathclaw promontory was the most difficult for me. Especially when I encountered a very bizarre glitch where nearly 3 times the deathclaws spawned in! LITTERALLY there were 3 mothers and 2 alphas! Oh nvm I just got really unlucky lol